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Your kind post card of the 8th
Dr Johnstonth inst—4 miles from Boltonr's story and examined
the photos he handed round as he proceeded.r told us of your great
kindness to him, and of your kind messages to us all—since repeated, again &
again, in your post cards to me. In the talk which followed a general feeling was
expressed that our united gratitude, thanks & affection should be conveyed to you,
and I was commissioned to write to you.—
One of the friends (Thomas Shonock)you are to me I cannot tell
you. But I am sure that no author before ever appealed to such depths of a man's
nature, or aroused such tender, personal love. Very sure am I that your now despised
poems will yet rank with the Hebrew Scriptures (to which alone I can compare them)
as sacred and priceless—
I will enclose a cutting from last weeks paper giving another instance (at a place a few miles from here) of the latent heroism of the roughest classes.